Month: January 2022

Kitchen Table Devotions  2022        Day 10

In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, ⁷ so that the  proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ

1 Peter 1:6-7

Let your trials and troubles push you toward God, not away.  Many people do the opposite.  Trials and troubles don’t tell us what’s wrong with God but rather what’s wrong with this world.  In the midst of trouble, rejoice!  Rejoice that you’ve found the truth and fix or cure to this life’s sorrow and sickness.  You’ve found the Savior, the Word of God who created all things good.  Let your faith, not your fear, move you and prove you a believer.  You’ll find that your faith is more precious than gold.

The Kitchen Table 2022               Day 9

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, ⁵ who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:3-5

The power of God is real and readily available to those who access it by faith.  Grace is what God does and faith is what we do.  All the promises of God are protected by the power of God through faith.  Faith doesn’t move God, it moves us.  God has already moved but faith moves our mind and our muscles into the word, work, and will of God.  Don’t let sin, Satan, suffering, or sickness move your mind & muscle.  Let faith do that!  All those other things come to misplace our faith & cause us to believe someone or something other than God.  Believe!

The Kitchen Table 2022               Day 8

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, ⁵ who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:3-5

The promises of God are held in heaven, away from the threats and troubles of the here and now.  Nothing and no one can steal or sabotage the promises of God, not even you or me.  We are heirs of the King, the Lord, and all He has is ours.  This life and this world will try to convince us that we have nothing but don’t believe it.  God calls us blessed.  We live constantly with the hope of heaven in our hearts.  Real faith keeps talking about what we have from God through Jesus. 

The Kitchen Table Devotions  2022              Day 7

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade

1 Peter 1:3-4 (NIV)

Can we grasp this truth, that the hope of God is living?  Living love creates living hope.  The hope of God is living, and it never diminishes.  Living love creates living hope that inspires living faith.  Believers don’t settle for memories or miseries; they reach for divinity and destiny every single day.  In fact, it’s the living hope of God that keeps us aware of the living love of God.  Look forward to this day and live by faith in the love and hope of God for your life.

The Kitchen Table 2022     Day 6

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead..

1 Peter 1:3 (NIV)

Love creates hope that inspires faith.  Anything else is just lust.  Real love inspires us to be someone, to do something, and to go somewhere.  That’s what God’s love does in and through our lives.

The Kitchen Table 2022               Day 5

And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; ⁴ and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; ⁵ and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.                      Romans 5:3-5

Hope lives in the convinced and committed heart.  A lot of people want hope but they don’t have hope because they haven’t let the hope of God live in their hearts.  There is nothing easy about God’s hope, but it is simple.  It’s all a matter of believing God, not just believing in God.  It’s about believing God’s word and work and will over all other temptations and troubles.   Jesus said that we must be willing to take up our cross and follow Him.  That means we must believe and behave His word, work, and will at all costs.  Only heat, the cost of love, reveals the heart of the believer.  It’s not that God’s love ever stops toward us but that our heart doesn’t believe it.  God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.  Believe it!  Let His hope have its way in your heart today.

The Kitchen Table 2022               Day 4

³ Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5:3-5

Let your faith inform your face and let your face inform your foes today.  We have the awesome love of God in our hearts, and we are full of hope.  Faith is what we believe in and hope is what we look for along the way.  And we know that in ALL things God is working for the good and so we rejoice rather than rumble in sorrow or fear.  The more we sing the stronger we get and the more sincere our hope becomes.  Sometimes we just need to say it out loud, Jesus is Lord!  Our flesh and our foe may try to slow us but faith that sings will see God show us His great love.

The Kitchen Table 2022               Day 3

Through Him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³ Romans 5:2-3

Hey, let your faith inform your face, it’s the only way to live this marvelous life God gives us by faith.  By faith, believing God, we have access to His grace.  Grace is right there for anyone who believes.  Jesus has already made it available.  We must tap into that grace and we do that by faith in His word and His work.  This is not a time to be sad and sorry.  When we believed we put our hand into the great big hand of the Almighty, All-powerful God and Creator.  So, rejoice!  Exalt!  Let’s let our faith inform our face of the future (hope) God has for us and REJOICE!  Faith is what we believe in, and Hope is what we look for in this life.

The Kitchen Table 2022               Day 2

Therefore, having been justified by faith,  we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:1-2

Faith is what we believe in, and hope is what we believe for or look for in this life.  The ability to believe was woven into the heart of every man and the ability to believe God gives every believer access to the “grace” of God.  The grace of God is the undeserved, unreserved, and unrestricted love of God working in our lives.  The love we are walking in is directly linked to the one we’re believing in right now.  We possess and participate in God’s great love by faith, believing every word and work of God every step of every day along the way.  We can believe, God has given us the gift of faith so that we can live in the greatness of His love.  For by grace, you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Ephesians 2:8

The Kitchen Table 2022               Day 1

Therefore, having been justified by faith,  we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. ³  And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; ⁴ and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; ⁵ and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 5:1-5

Faith is what we believe for, and hope is what we look for in our lives.  We are justified by faith.  Faith is what we “believe” in.  Hope is what we look for because of what we believe in.  We are justified by faith or because we not only believe in Jesus, but we believe Jesus and everything Jesus said and did for us before the cross, on the cross, through the cross and after the cross.  That faith means that we constantly have the hope of His presence which brings peace.  Don’t look for your problem, look for His presence.  He is here!